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Russian Police Brutality

Seven years after the police tortured him into confessing he had abducted, raped and murdered a girl, crimes he did not commit, one of Russia's many victims of police brutality has won a measure of justice. Aleksei Mikheyev, now 29 and a virtual cripple from the waist down because of his ordeal at the hands of the police, has been granted €250,000 (£170,000) in compensation by the European Court of Human Rights.
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Although the title of this Thread is 'Russian' police Brutality, I can honestly say that this is something that happens everywhere, especially if the case is high profile and the public wants answers. You just have to 'look' like you did it and the police will take you down tooth and nail. However, it is good that Mikheyev was able to get a small recompense for what he would of had to go through.

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Russia's 'YouTube policeman' held

A Russian police officer who posted a video on the internet alleging the police force in his home town was corrupt is arrested on fraud charges. Ref. Source 6

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Four Russian policemen killed in Ingushetia ambush

Suspected Islamist militants killed four Russian policemen in an ambush in the restive North Caucasus province of Ingushetia on Wednesday, Interfax news agency quoted a law-enforcement source as saying. Ref. Source 2

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Russian Cops Ban Short Skirts After Skirts Get Too Short

In Russian police force, uniform modifies you! Or at least the public's perception of you. That is the principal argument behind the Russian Interior Ministry's recent ban on short skirts and other uniform modifications, the Moscow Times reports. "When you meet people, the first thing Ref. Source 1

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Former Russian lawmaker shot dead in central Kiev :

"There was an exchange of fire in front of the entrance to the Premier-Palace Hotel" - Krishchenko said the assailant injured Voronenkov's bodyguard, who fired at him in return. Ref. Source 4v.